May 2010 represents a milestone for me. It was 10 years ago this month that I appeared at the DevConnections conference in New Orleans and made some contacts and decisions that dictated the next several years of my life. It was right after this conference that I began, for no particular reason but that I liked the guys, to become closer socially to members of the Fox Team and the support guys in North Carolina. When a Fox Team test position opened up early the following year I was contacted to see if I was interested. I wasn't at first (lol) but push came to shove and I ended up being a software design engineer/test on the Team in June 2001.

I had a blast even though 2001 - 2005 represented a very trying time for me personally. When Mike Stewart stepped down as Lead and I was asked to assume the role things got even more interesting and I did much more than just write test plans and code: I was doing budgeting, work and contractor management, helping decide feature sets and risk assessment, et al.

I haven't done hardly anything with VFP since late 2005. Not by choice but by what people were willing to pay me to do. I see VFPX and all of the community efforts and I'm glad to see it still chugging along. One day, maybe, I'll get a call to jump into a VFP project...man, I'd love that. Until then, I'm developing in .Net and writing a lot of SQL code.

2010 also represents the 25th year since I started serious development work in xBase languages and 23 years since my first FoxBase+ application. Has it been that long???